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The annual Altab Ali Day is on Monday 4 May. Unfortunately, this year due to Corona outbreak we will not be holding any public commemoration of Altab Ali at Altab Ali Park, Adler Street, Whitechapel. We are requesting everybody to remember the racist killing of Altab Ali in your own way as the annual commemoration of the Altab Ali Day ...

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested more than 4,000 people for domestic abuse since the restrictions imposed to stop the spread of coronavirus were introduced, the force said in a statement Friday. “The COVID-19 restrictions and ‘stay at home’ instruction is vital to managing this public health crisis, but unfortunately it has also left current and potential victims of domestic abuse even ...

Friday 17 April 2020: Over half of UK Muslims will struggle to pay bills during coronavirus crisis With half of Muslim households in the UK living in poverty and deprivation compared to 18% of the general UK population (1), Islamic Relief UK is partnering with the National Zakat Foundation (NZF) to give financial support to desperate families struggling through ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: Once there was a single settlement of the Orao indigenous community in the Baluchor area of Sylhet. Now only seventeen families live in a small hill. Their total number is ninety. Due to the corona breakout, all the earners of these families are now stuck at home. None of these families have wealthy relatives. There is ...

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has established a new £10.5 million fund using money received from a central government fund of £1.6 billion announced on 19 March that will support local authorities with some of the cost of supporting residents, businesses and local organisations tackling the impact of coronavirus. Councils are able to make their own decisions about ...

Four more Bangladeshis have died of coronavirus (COVID-19) in UK in the last 24 hours. The deceased were identified as Abdur Nur of Sunamganj, Habibur Rahman of Sylhet, Shafikul Islam of Narayanganj and Suruj Ali of Sylhet. With this, the death toll of Bangladeshi immigrants in the UK reaches 94, unofficial sources said.However, coronavirus deaths in the UK have jumped ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: A UK House of Commons briefing paper released on 9 April warned fears for Rohingyas due to Corona outbreak. The paper authored by Louisa Brooke -Holland says refugees camps are especially vulnerable to serious outbreaks of Covid-19 because of high density settlements with poor access to water and sanitation and limited health services. In March 2020 ...

A British-Bangladeshi hospital consultant in London has died from the coronavirus weeks after pleading to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for more personal protective equipment for frontline staff. Abdul Mabud Chowdhury, 53, a consultant urologist at Homerton hospital in Hackney in east London, died after spending 15 days in Queens hospital, according to a report published in The Guardian on ...

Seven residents of an east London care home have died with coronavirus. Another 21 residents are displaying Covid-19 symptoms at the Hawthorn Green home in Stepney – which houses 48 people. A dozen staff members are also off work, either self-isolating or shielding, the care home said. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said it was “working ...

Barrister Monir Jaman Sheikh, president of Graduate Club, UK, who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, has died during treatment at a hospital in UK. He was 62. Monir Jaman breathed his last at Newham Hospital in East London at around 10:00pm (local time) on Tuesday.Hailing from Kumail village of Rampal in Bagerhat, Monir is survived by his wife, ...